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Corook: Committed to a Bit [Atlantic, 2025]
In which the musical artist also known as Corinne Savage plights their pronoun on the pointedly upper-cased "THEY!" and their troth pretty much throughout. "I came out of the womb with my heart on my sleeve," they report in their lucid soprano. "You taught me to love me/Like it was hard to love me/You were so focused on the flaws you saw/You didn't even see me," Corook tells their father (never mind "dad"). For the anxiety their daughter feels, their mother prescribes her favorite cure-all, Pepto-Bismol: "a bandaid for a broken arm/Drink it all until it's gone/Drink so we don't have to talk." Yet in the evocatively titled "Death" "a woman whose husband died suddenly" so that she "can't listen to Kenny Rogers anymore" "looked us in the eyes/Said cherish all our time/And I felt you grab my hand a little tighter." Which is why, if you turn it upside down and think about it briefly, the last words of that song are "I want to love you to death." A